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BLIS (software)
BLIS (BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software) is an open-source C99 framework from the University of Texas at Austin for rapidly building high-performance BLAS libraries, used as the basis of AMD's AOCL-BLAS.
Blizzard North
Blizzard North, also known as Condor, Inc., was a Northern California video game studio that developed the Diablo games for Blizzard Entertainment from 1996 to 2005.
Blob analysis
Blob analysis is a computer vision technique that detects and measures connected pixel regions, called blobs, in segmented images, extracting properties such as area, perimeter, and centroid.
Block
Block, Inc., formerly Square, Inc., is an American financial technology company founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2009, operating the Square and Cash App platforms from Oakland, California.
Block (Internet)
A block, or Internet blocking, is the deliberate prevention of network traffic or access to a resource, performed by firewalls, packet filters, and DNS filtering resolvers.
Block cipher
A block cipher, or symmetric block cipher, is a cryptographic algorithm that encrypts fixed-length blocks of data under a secret key; AES, NIST's standard since 2001, replaced DES.
Block cipher mode of operation
A block cipher mode of operation is a method for using a block cipher such as AES to encrypt messages of any length, providing confidentiality or authentication.
Block code
A block code is an error-control method that maps fixed-length k-bit message blocks to longer n-bit codewords so a receiver can detect or correct transmission errors, with rate k/n.
Block encoding
Block encoding is a quantum algorithm technique that embeds a matrix as a block of a larger unitary, enabling non-unitary linear algebra on quantum computers.
Block floating point
Block floating point (BFP) is a number representation where a block of numbers shares a single exponent, saving storage and offering more stability than fixed point.
Blockchain
Blockchain, or blockchain technology, is a tamper-resistant distributed digital ledger, usually without a central authority, in which cryptographically linked blocks of transactions cannot be changed once published.
Blockly
Blockly is an open-source JavaScript library for building visual programming editors in which users write programs by dragging and dropping blocks that snap together, rather than typing code.
Blog
A blog, short for weblog, is a website made up of dated posts displayed newest first, typically with reader comments and RSS or Atom syndication feeds.
Blogger (service)
Blogger, also known as Blogspot, is a free blog-hosting service owned by Google, launched in August 1999 by Pyra Labs. Google acquired it in 2003, its first company purchase.
BLOOM
BLOOM is a 176B-parameter open-access large language model released in July 2022 by BigScience, a Hugging Face-led collaboration, generating text in 46 natural and 13 programming languages.
Bloom filter
A Bloom filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure invented by Burton H. Bloom in 1970 that tests set membership, sometimes giving false positives but never false negatives.
BloombergGPT
BloombergGPT is a 50-billion-parameter large language model trained by Bloomberg for financial natural language processing, announced in a research paper in March 2023 and never released.
Blord
Blord is the professional name of Linus Williams Ifejirika, a Nigerian cryptocurrency entrepreneur and CEO of the Blord Group, known for Bitcoin trading and the Billpoint app.
Blowfish (cipher)
Blowfish, also known as the Blowfish encryption algorithm, is a symmetric-key block cipher designed by Bruce Schneier in 1993 as a fast, free alternative to DES.
Blu-ray
Blu-ray is a 120 mm optical disc format using a 405 nm blue-violet laser to store 25 GB per layer, carrying HD and, since 2016, 4K Ultra HD video.
Blue Coat Systems
Blue Coat Systems, also known as CacheFlow, was an American network security company known for its ProxySG proxy appliances; founded in 1996, it was acquired by Symantec in 2016.
Blue Prism
Blue Prism is a British enterprise software company for robotic process automation, founded in 2001, that coined the term RPA in 2012 and was acquired by SS&C Technologies in 2022.
Blue screen of death
The blue screen of death (BSOD), or stop error, is the screen Microsoft Windows displays when a kernel fault forces a halt, showing a stop code for diagnosis.
Blue Waters
Blue Waters was a sustained-petascale supercomputer operated by NCSA at the University of Illinois from 2013 to 2021, funded by the NSF and delivering 42 billion core-hours to researchers.
Blue-green deployment
Blue-green deployment is a software release technique in which a new version runs in an identical parallel environment, and traffic switches over, giving near zero-downtime releases.
BlueJ
BlueJ is a free, cross-platform Java IDE designed for teaching object-oriented programming to beginners, created at Monash University in 1999 and used by an estimated 20 million learners.
BlueKeep
BlueKeep, also known as DejaBlue, is a critical wormable vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services, disclosed and patched in May 2019, that lets unauthenticated attackers run code.
Bluesky (social network)
Bluesky, also known as Bsky or Blue Sky Social, is a decentralized microblogging network on the AT Protocol that grew from a Twitter project to 30 million users.
BlueStacks
BlueStacks is an Android emulator, marketed as an app player, that runs Android apps and games on Windows and macOS computers, first released in 2011.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a global wireless standard for short-range communication in the 2.4 GHz band, offering Bluetooth Classic for audio streaming and Bluetooth Low Energy for low-power devices.